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I have been researching my family tree since my paternal grandfather died in 1976. Whilst researching my mother's ancestry I started recording every instance of her maternal grandmother's name FARMERY and so my one-name study was born! I now record every instance of the name I find all over the world, and my database currently contains over 51,600 name events. I am constructing family trees for each family group and try to put distant cousins in touch!

My study covers the FARMERY surname and known variants such as FARMEARY, FARMEREY, FARMARY and FARMERIE, as well as instances of the name being used as a forename rather than surname.


Tuesday 31 March 2020

Rising to the Challenge


Back in early January 2020 I signed up to a Guild of One-Name Studies challenge to write 10 blog posts between then and the end of March – and despite all good intentions, numerous ideas and (some) planning I have failed miserably until today, on March 31st, I’m sitting down to at least get one blog published before the midnight “deadline”!

As we in the UK are all at the end of the first week of the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown someone who really is rising to the challenge is Andrew D FARMERY Professor of Anaesthetics in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Wadham College Oxford where he has been since 2004 following fellowship at another college after having combined both clinical and research training in London, Cambridge and Oxford.  He is the main tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine at Wadham.

Whilst the NHS has more than 8,000 ventilators the government said it needs at least 30,000 to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic; in addition to buying more ventilators and working with existing manufacturers to try to quickly upscale production the government also issued an open call for proposals for a quick-to-produce ventilator that could help fill the gap.  This resulted in more than 3,000 pitches from major manufacturers as well as smaller groups, including academics like Andrew Farmery.

Eight days earlier, thinking it couldn’t be done, Andrew was discussing with a colleague and some Ph.D. students the dire need to produce more ventilators in the U.K.  But he joined forces with a small team of academics, engineers and doctors to brainstorm a prototype of a ventilator made from off-the-shelf parts that could help to treat Coronavirus patients.  Essentially a small squeezable bag inside a Perspex box, through which compressed air is injected, and which costs about £1,000 to make, Andrew pitched OxVent to the Johnson cabinet and the MHRA on Monday March 23rd.

Last Wednesday the OxVent team were informed that their ventilator was still in the running and would now be independently tested.

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[FARMERY of West Tanfield]
Guild Blog Challenge 1
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